Pitcher

Arts of the Americas

1915

Julius O. Randahl (American, 1880–1972)
Made by Kalo Shop (1900–1970)
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Julius O. Randahl
Title: Pitcher
Place: Chicago (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1915
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Monogram recto, middle-top, applied: "M" [for Mrs. Louis Marks]. Marked bottom, middle, stamped: "JOR [struck through with ball pein hammer] / STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / 494".
Dimensions: 22.6 × 20.8 × 16.4 cm (8 15/16 × 8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Dreiman
Reference Number: 1976.391

Milo Naeve, “Colonial Banking to Contemporary Collecting,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 71, no. 6 (Nov.–Dec., 1977), 1–7, fig. 10 (ill.).
Janet Kardon, The Ideal Home, 1900–1920: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft, exh. cat. (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993), 200 (ill.).
Carolyn Kelly, “The Kalo Shop: A Case Study of Handwrought Silver in the Twentieth Century” (master’s thesis, Parsons School of Design, 2006), 40, 159 (ill.).

New York, American Craft Museum, The Ideal Home, 1900–1920, Oct. 21, 1993–Feb. 27, 1994, cat.

Louis Marks (1865-1927) and Mrs. Louis Marks (1871-1949), Chicago (m. February 17, 1890), 1915; to their daughter, Mrs. Marion Rubens, Chicago; to her daughter, Doris Rubens (Mrs. Lawrence) Dreiman (died 2000); to her husband, Lawrence Dreiman (died 2004), Chevy Chase, MD, by 1976; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976.

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